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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/73283

Observation and metaphor

日本語

2019-03-20

Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University

Media and Communication Studies

72

75-93

The purpose of this thesis is to examine a metaphor from the angle of the observation. That way, the feature as the function of the metaphor will be brought into shaper focus. A metaphor involves "cutoff" and "connection" processes at the same time while duplicating the meaning of the expression. In other words, a metaphor contains two contradictory elements at the same time. This article analyzes the function of medium of the metaphor from the perspective of social theory. The thesis also argues that paradoxes and tautologies, etc. are a fundamental principle of a metaphor by quoting Luhmann's theory.

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1882-5303

AA12286697